Big Miracle is the kind of film you dread getting assigned to write about as a film critic, you go to by yourself because none of your friends will join you, you growl through the …
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Peter Waldron joins me to discuss what Toy Story 3 has in common with Black Hawk Down, which Pixar film is best, and what the differences is between an “emotional” and a “spiritual” aesthetic.
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Anti-science fiction? Kubrickian anti-narrative? Spielbergian sentiment? Readers at Cinevox seem to agree that the film is not successful. They don’t all agree why. Have an opinion? Join the discussion at Cinevox.
CFP: Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II (6/9/2010; collection)
The editor of Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) seeks proposals for previously unpublished essays to appear …
When presented with a direct, perfunctory question about whether or not his film’s subject–a homosexual affair between two orthodox Jewish men–is “taboo,” director Haim Tabakman gives an equally direct and frank answer:
My dominant impression, walking out of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator Tw…er Robin Hood, was that it is nice to see Scott Grimes (closer to Party of Five mode than E.R. mode) getting work. My second thought …
Regretters is a about two men, Mikael and Orlando, who both made one of the most dramatic, life altering, and final decisions conceivable–to undergo sexual reassignment surgery–and then changed their minds.
